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Files.com offers a powerful integration with the Boomi integration platform, allowing you to seamlessly transfer data between Boomi processes and Files.com account.

What is Files.com?

Files.com is a SaaS file transfer platform that enables organizations to securely transfer, share, and store files between users, teams, and organizations.
Files.com has been providing businesses with secure, cloud-native file transfers for over 10 years, serving over 6,000 customers across industries like healthcare, finance, media, and technology.
It is a robust platform trusted by businesses for secure, fast, and reliable file transfers, with seamless integrations, top-notch security, and user-friendly features.

Capabilities

• The connector enables data transfer between your Boomi processes and your Files.com account.
• It provides over 30 new actions for managing files, folders, share links, user accounts and groups in Files.com from within Boomi.
• This allows you to automate data exchanges, partner onboarding, user management and more between Boomi and Files.com.

Benefits

• The connector uses direct APIs for faster performance compared to relying on SFTP or FTP.

• It offers improved connectivity, throughput, and auto-retry capabilities for more resilient integrations than SFTP/FTP.
• Boomi provides a visual, point-and-click interface for quickly setting up integrations with no coding required.

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Before You Begin

Files.com — Partner Connector Connection

• API Key: Files.com user account API Key

Included Processes

• [MAIN] - Files.com Basics Examples
• Files.com Basics: Download a File
• Files.com Basics: Upload a File
• Files.com Basics: Upload a File and Create a Share Link for it

[MAIN] - Files.com Basics Examples

This process is the runtime for the items in this recipe.

Files.com Basics: Download a File

This process demonstrates how to download a file from your Files.com site. The contents of the file will be retrieved and passed on to subsequent steps of your process.

Start Step - No Data

• Starts the process with no incoming data.

Set Properties Step - Set DDP_FilePath to be downloaded from Files.com

• Properties to Set
  • Sets a Dynamic Process Property.
  • Property Name is “DPP_FilePath”.
• Property Value
  • Sets a Static Value of “path/to/file.txt”.
  • Update this to the full path of the file you wish to download from your Files.com site.

Files.com Partner Connector

• Connection - Files.com — Partner Connector Connection
• Action - Download
• Operation - Files.com — Download File Operation
  • Connector Action - Download
  • Object - File
  • Response profile - Unstructured
  • Tracking Direction - Output Documents
  • Parameters
    • Input/Name
      • ID
    • Type
      • Dynamic Process Property
    • Property Name
      • DPP_FilePath
• Description - This operation will return (download) the contents of a file in your Files.com site.

Notify Step - Route received file data to destination

• Receives the downloaded file contents in the “Current Data” variable.

Stop Step

• Ends this process.

Files.com Basics: Upload a File

This process demonstrates how to upload a file to your Files.com site.

Start Step - No Data

• Starts the process with no incoming data.

Message Step - File Contents

• This is a placeholder step, used to specify some file content. It should be replaced with whichever step is generating or collecting the desired file data.

Set Properties Step - Set DDP_FilePath to be downloaded from Files.com

• Properties to Set
  • Sets a Dynamic Process Property.
  • Property Name is “DPP_FilePath”.
• Property Value
  • Sets a Static Value of “path/to/file.txt”.
  • Update this to the full path of the file you wish to upload to your Files.com site.

Files.com Partner Connector

• Connection - Files.com — Partner Connector Connection
• Action - Upload
• Operation - Files.com — Upload File Operation
  • Connector Action - Upload
  • Object - File
  • Response profile - Unstructured
  • Tracking Direction - Input Documents
  • Dynamic Operation Properties
    • Input
      • Path
    • Type
      • Dynamic Process Property
    • Property Name
      • DPP_FilePath
• Description - This operation will upload the step’s input and save it to a specific folder and file name in your Files.com site.

Stop Step

• Ends this process.

Files.com Basics: Upload a File and Create a Share Link for it

This process demonstrates how to upload a file to your Files.com site and then generate a secure Share Link for it. The Share Link can then be delivered to any recipient, using any delivery method, in later steps of your process.

Start Step - No Data

• Starts the process with no incoming data.

Message Step - File Contents

• This is a placeholder step, used to specify some file content. It should be replaced with whichever step is generating or collecting the desired file data.

Set Properties Step - Set DDP_FilePath to be downloaded from Files.com

• Properties to Set
  • Sets a Dynamic Process Property.
  • Property Name is “DPP_FilePath”.
• Property Value
  • Sets a Static Value of “path/to/file.txt”.
  • Update this to the full path of the file you wish to upload to your Files.com site.

Files.com Partner Connector

• Connection - Files.com — Partner Connector Connection
• Action - Upload
• Operation - Files.com — Upload File Operation
  • Connector Action - Upload
  • Object - File
  • Response profile - Unstructured
  • Tracking Direction - Input Documents
  • Dynamic Operation Properties
    • Input
      • Path
    • Type
      • Dynamic Process Property
    • Property Name
      • DPP_FilePath
• Description - This operation will upload the step’s input and save it to a specific folder and file name in your Files.com site.

Notify Step - Capture the uploaded file path to use for the Share Link

• Shows the full path of the uploaded file from the returned JSON of the upload action.

• Outputs a message, including the file’s full path, to the log.

Set Properties Step - Set Properties about the filename and file path of the item to have a Share Link created for it in Files.com

• Set a Property for the full path to the file:
  • Properties to Set
    • Sets a Dynamic Process Property.
    • Property Name is “DPP_FilePath”.
  • Property Value
    • Sets a Static Value of the “path” value of the uploaded file JSON profile.
• Set a Property for the description
  • Properties to Set
    • Sets a Dynamic Process Property
    • Property Name is “DPP_ShareLinkDescription”.
  • Property Value
    • Sets a Static Value of the description to be used for the Share Link. This description will be shown to visitors of the link.
• Set a Property for the note:
  • Properties to Set
    • Sets a Dynamic Process Property.
    • Property Name is “DPP_ShareLinkNote”.
  • Property Value
    • Sets a Static Value of the text note to be used for the Share Link. This note is visible to administrators of your Files.com site.

Files.com Partner Connector

• Connection - Files.com — Partner Connector Connection
• Action - Create
• Operation - Files.com — Create Share Link Operation
  • Connector Action - Create
  • Object - ShareLink
  • Request profile - Files.com — ShareLink Create Request
  • Tracking Direction - Input Documents
  • Dynamic Operation Properties
    • The target file to create a Share Link for:
      • Input
        • Items1 (Object/paths/Array/items1)
      • Type
        • Dynamic Process Property
      • Property Name
        • DPP_FilePath
    • The description for the Share Link:
      • Input
        • description (Object/description)
      • Type
        • Dynamic Process Property
      • Property Name
        • DPP_ShareLinkDescription
    • A note for the Share Link:
      • Input
        • note (Object/note)
      • Type
        • Dynamic Process Property
      • Property Name
        • DPP_ShareLinkNote
• Description - This operation will create an item in your Files.com site.

Notify Step - Capture the Share Link URL for later processing

• Shows the URL of the Share Link contained in the returned JSON of the create Share Link action.

Stop Step

• Ends this process.

Additional Help

Files.com Partner Connector Help
Notify Step Help
Set Properties Step Help
Message Step Help